County annual report · FIPS 27039
2019 Dodge County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Dodge County, MN went without power for an average of 12.9 hours, a total of 80K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 418th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Dodge County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 11, 2019 03:45 | April 13, 2019 19:45 | 2d 16h | 3,059 | 58K |
| 2 | November 14, 2019 09:00 | November 14, 2019 09:45 | 45m | 1,724 | 862 |
| 3 | July 9, 2019 08:30 | July 9, 2019 10:30 | 2h | 1,325 | 2,147 |
| 4 | May 1, 2019 12:45 | May 1, 2019 14:00 | 1h 15m | 893 | 893 |
| 5 | February 4, 2019 07:15 | February 4, 2019 11:30 | 4h 15m | 717 | 2,881 |
| 6 | July 20, 2019 11:45 | July 21, 2019 23:30 | 1d 11h | 608 | 3,047 |
| 7 | February 20, 2019 20:00 | February 20, 2019 21:45 | 1h 45m | 500 | 663 |
| 8 | June 4, 2019 22:30 | June 5, 2019 21:00 | 22h 30m | 343 | 2,676 |
| 9 | September 25, 2019 00:45 | September 25, 2019 20:45 | 20h | 324 | 2,674 |
| 10 | June 23, 2019 21:45 | June 24, 2019 01:00 | 3h 15m | 203 | 660 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 15 reached 100+ customers, 3 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Dodge County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2018 | 90 min | 0.73 | 69 min | 0.62 |
| Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric | 2018 | 10.5 hrs | 1.66 | 1.7 hrs | 0.96 |
| Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative | 2018 | 3.0 hrs | 1.80 | 89 min | 1.07 |
| Goodhue County Coop Elec Assn | 2018 | 3.5 hrs | 1.17 | 32 min | 0.33 |
| People's Cooperative Services | 2018 | 2.8 hrs | 0.93 | 1.6 hrs | 0.80 |
| City of Blooming Prairie - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Kasson | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 71% of Minnesota's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 6,199 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Dodge County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dodge County, MN annual power outage report, 2019, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2019/minnesota/dodge-county